Sanitary toilet cover



Oct. 1, 1929. H. R. WILLIAMS SANITARY TOILET COVER Filed June 8, 1928 I NVENTOR W7 M wfizzzw ATTORNEYS Patented Oct. 1, 1929 UNlT HARRISON R. WILLIAMS, OF GLENS FALLS, YORK SANITARY TOILET COVER Application filed June 8, 1928. Serial No. 283,804.

This invention relates .to sanitary paper covers for toilet seats and has for an object to provide a cover which will effectively protect the users of the toilet against uncleanliness and against infectious diseases.

It is a particular object of the invention to provide a cover of this character which will be automatically carried away by the flushing of the toilet, so that a user of the toilet will not under any circumstances findit necessary to handle a cover left on the seat by a previous user.

To this end the cover desirably comprises a body portion adapted to cover the seat, and a tongue depending within the bowl which tongue is provided with slits in the lower portion thereof to facilitate the drawing of the cover into the bowl when the toilet is flushed.

Other objects and advantages will hereinafter appear.

In the drawings forming part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a toilet seat cover embodying features of the invention; and

Figure 2 is a side elevation, partly in section showing the cover of Figure 1 applied to the toilet seat.

The cover 1 is desirably made of soft, flexible paper of a kind that is readily disintegrable in water and therefore capable of being flushed down the toilet without cloggingthe soil pipe. The cover comprises a marginal or body portion 2 which is preferably rectangular but may, if desired, have the contour of the toilet seat. The cover material is cut to form the necessary opening therein, the severed materiallying inside the bounds of the body portion being left attached at its forward end to the body portion to provide a protective tongue 3 adapted to be folded downward into the toilet bowl. This tongue 3 is provided near the rear or lower end thereof with zigzag slits in its side margins forming streamer-s4 for facilitating the drawing of the cover into the bowl by the Water when the toilet is flushed.

It is not desirable that the tongue, which is of absorbent material, dip into the water in the bowl while the toilet is in use. Neither is it desirable that the user be required to position the tonguein the bowl with any degree of exactness to enable it to be caught and carried down by the water, because in such case it would frequently happen that careless persons, failing to take the necessary care in positioning the tongue, would leave the cover on the seat when quitting the toilet, and this would put upon the subsequent user the necessity of handling the old cover in order to dispose of it.

With the construction as described, however, the carrying away of the cover by the water is assured in the most common types of toilets, even though the tongue is oarelsssly placed. The tongue is made of substantially the full width of the-opening in the seat so that the space between the tongue and the front of the bowl is of substantial width. When the toilet is flushed the rushing water apparently exerts an 'aspirating action sweeping out from the space between the front of the bowl and the tongue, a portion of the air in such space. The width of the tongue prevents the rapid replacement of the withdrawn air, and hence the tongue is drawn or sucked forward toward the front of the bowl and toward the flowing 'water. The streamers formed on the tongue are readily flexed forward and sucked into the stream of descending water, caught by it, and caused to draw the entire lower end of the tongue into the stream of water so that the entire cover is pulled down forcibly into the bowl. The zigzag edges of the streamers and of the tongue body serve effectually to prevent separation of the streamers and the tongue from the stream of water, once they have been caught by the water, and to increase the pull which the water may exert upon the cover.

It will be seen that the cover constructed according to the present invention serves both to completely guard the user against contact with the toilet seat, and to assure against the necessity of touching a cover previously used by someone else.

While I have described what I believe to shown but What I desire to cover by Letters Patent as set forth in the appended claims.

Claims:

1. A sanitary seat cover for toilets consisting of a sheet of flexible paper having a body portion adapted to cover the toilet seat, a protective tongue at the inner front edge of such body portion adapted to extend down- Ward into the toilet bowl, and streamers forming a part of the tongue to be caught by the water when the toilet is flushed for drawing the cover into the bowl.

2. A sanitary seat cover for toilets consisting of a sheet of flexible paper having a body portion, and an integral tongue connected to the body portion at the inner boundary thereof, said tongue being adapted to extend downward into the bowl and having zigzag slits formed in the lower portion thereof to facilitate drawing of the cover into the bowl by the water when the toilet is flushed.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature to this specification.

HARRISON R. WILLIAMS. 

